March 27th, 2012
New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel will pay a $23,000 fine for using a rent-stabilized apartment as a campaign office, the New York Post reported Tuesday. (more)
March 14th, 2012
Records filed by Obama for America with the Federal Election Commission indicate that the president’s re-election campaign shelled out at least $345,353 to commission “The Road We’ve Traveled,” a 17-minute campaign documentary by Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim, set for release Thursday. The price comes out to more than $20,300 per minute. (more)
February 3rd, 2012
Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer became eligible Thursday to receive taxpayer money for his campaign, the Federal Election Commission announced Friday. (more)
February 1st, 2012
Ron Paul’s campaign is receiving financial support from Silicon Valley tech visionaries, including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist donated nearly a million dollars to Endorse Liberty, the pro-Ron Paul super PAC disclosed Tuesday. (more)
December 19th, 2011
Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich used campaign funds for personal gain, a left-leaning watchdog group alleged in a Federal Election Commission complaint filed Monday. (more)
November 8th, 2011
In a satirical ad funded by the Colbert Super PAC, former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer took a shot at Super PACs and the way they leverage money to influence elections. Roemer’s spot features the dark horse presidential candidate and a unicorn named Rainbow. (more)
October 26th, 2011
Artur Davis’s new tune on voter ID laws isn’t his only recent right turn. According to third-quarter Federal Election Commission filings, Davis — a former Democratic congressman from Alabama, donated $500 in September to the campaign of Heather Wilson, New Mexico’s Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. Davis also contributed to the Republican front-runner in the Mississippi governor’s race. (more)
September 1st, 2011
Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger received confirmation Thursday that the Federal Election Commission will investigate his exclusion from an August 11 Iowa debate hosted by Fox News. (more)
August 16th, 2011
Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger will submit a complaint against Fox News to the Federal Election Commission on Thursday, The Daily Caller has learned. (more)
June 30th, 2011
Stephen Colbert’s campaign finance stunt took a decidedly serious turn on Thursday when the Federal Election Commission approved the comedian’s self-referential, and very real, “super-PAC.” (more)
June 17th, 2011
The Federal Election Commission is demanding that a political organization with ties to Karl Rove that came under attack by Democrats during the 2010 election release the names of certain donors. (more)
June 9th, 2011
The Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) is looking for any and all communications between campaign finance advocacy groups and Democratic members of the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The RNLA’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request comes after the left-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a similar one looking for the same information about only Republican FEC commissioners. (more)
June 7th, 2011
Just when you thought that New York tabloids got the last word on Rep. Anthony Weiner, Donald Trump piles on. (more)
May 13th, 2011
A couple hundred people stood around holding cameras as comedian Stephen Colbert dropped into Washington and filed papers for his Super PAC. It was the most excitement the Federal Election Commission and its office may ever see. (more)
April 29th, 2011
WASHINGTON — The New Hampshire Democratic Party announced this morning that it is filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Republican Mitt Romney violated campaign finance laws by using large contributions given to a series of state PACs to fund his presidential ambitions. (more)
February 14th, 2011
It looks as if Rep. Charlie Rangel wants to come back for a 22nd term. (more)
February 5th, 2011
Washington (CNN) – Candidates running for federal office should expect slightly larger donations during the next election cycle. (more)
February 4th, 2011
When folks are asked about the central tenets of President Obama’s 2008 campaign, phrases such as “unprecedented transparency,” “post-partisan,” and “hope and change” regularly come up. (more)
January 31st, 2011
The 2012 Presidential election has not officially kicked off, however many potential GOP hopefuls have been busy over the past year laying the groundwork for 2012, raising money and in some cases, visiting the crucial early states of presidential politics. (more)
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